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    Deskometrics
    Deskometrics
    Deskometrics
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    Deskometrics

    By Hank Gross

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    The workout you do right at your desk. Use the bulk of your desk as a weight against which to exercise, stretch, tone and build the various muscles of your body. Excellent for the deskbound, and for corporations, health orgs, and municipalities which want to keep their employees fit. and healthy. The "deskercises" are for real but presented tongue in cheek and funny. Cover photo:Richard ChauDavis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHank Gross
    Release dateMar 18, 2010
    ISBN9781452319933
    Deskometrics
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    Hank Gross

    I have been a writer and editor for over 40 years, beginning in New York City in the 60's, where I freelanced for various magazines and worked as an editor at the National Examiner tabloid newspaper. I also did research and writing for the Reader's Digest (Hell's Angels, Motorcycle Safety) and flew to Louisville to interview (in poetry) Cassius Clay before he won the title and became Ali. His mother was the sweetest woman and made the best potato salad I've ever had. I have had novels and non-fiction published by major publishers such as Ballantine, World, Arbor House, Peter Pauper Press, and William Morrow, as well as many short stories and articles in major national publications, such as "The Boy Who Ate New York" in the National Lampoon, 1991. (This can be read online at my website, http://www.hankgross.com. I have also taught English and writing to students from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. I studied street photography with Randall Warniers at MIT, as well as figure photography. I won first prize in the December 1995 Popular Photography contest and was later profiled in the magazine (August 1997). Recently, I have taken up painting (acrylics), which can be viewed on my website. My email is: hankgross@gmail.com

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      Deskometrics - Hank Gross

      DESKOMETRICS ™

      Hank Gross

      Published by Hank Gross at Smashwords 2010

      © 2010 Hank Gross All Rights Reserved

      Disclaimer: This book is for entertainment only, You use this book and the deskercises described herein at your own risk. Neither the author nor publisher will be responsible in whole or in part for any damage or injury associated with the use of this book.

      http://www.hankgross.com

      http://www.deskometrics.com

      License: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      THE MOTHER OF ALL DUHS)

      (Introduction)

      This book is intended for all the millions of people whose daily routine involves a lot of sitting at a desk.

      The idea is to use the bulk of your desk as a weight against which to tense, and thereby exercise, stretch, tone and challenge the various muscles of your body. You could do this with a wall, too (Wallometrics, my next book) or a very big person (Sumometrics), but the idea here is that you’re at your desk, it’s handy, it has nooks and edges and sides and indents to grip and use, and you’re probably supposed to be there, anyway.

      We all know that these sedentary hours are not good for our health unless we counteract them with some activity. Deskometrics ™ is intended to show you a number of ways to do this to increase your health and, if you work hard enough, to tone and increase your muscle strength.

      The apparatus you are about to use was invented one rainy afternoon in 1610 by an alcoholic Dutch carpenter who thought he’d devised a device on which to set his bottle of whiskey. Falling off his chair half an hour later, he pulled himself up by the corner of his new invention, too 2izzled to recognize that what he’d really invented was a revolutionary piece of exercise equipment. Having done, like, half a rep at most, he died six minutes later, and so the bud of Deskometrics™ lay fallow for some four hundred years until it was rediscovered by yours truly and honed into the most amazing fitness breakthrough of modern times.

      Think of your desk as a dumbbell. If you find this difficult at first, think of some other dumbbell you know, like a neighbor, say, and then imagine him or her morphed into the shape of a big heavy three-dimensional rectangle with drawers. In no case should you imagine me, the author, as a dumbbell, even though many people have called me that.

      You can do these exercises in a set during a coffee break or sprinkle them throughout the day. In many cases, no one will even know you’re doing them. For instance, gripping the underside of the middle drawer and straining to, as it were, lift

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